Citizen Quotes Top News Page #17

Fight for dear life and watch for any chance to escape.

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Typically, if a hippo is going to be attacking, you’ll see it coming way before. There will be that bow wave. … If you slap the water, the percussion 99.9 times out of 100 will turn the hippo, if you’re in a canoe and a hippo knocks you in the water, get away from the canoe. The hippo is going for this big shape, getting it off its territory.

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It was idyllic, life was really, really good – until one day I had a really bad day at the office.

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Hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them, i don’t think hippos are particularly aggressive, but I think when under pressure, they attack.

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– Rebecca Lewison

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Hippos have no interest in dealing with people. Stay away from them, and they will leave you alone. They are not hunting humans, do not get close to them.

– Rebecca Lewison

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You’re the sum of your choices. You’re exactly who, what and where you choose to be in life.

Most of the attacks happen in the water, but because hippos raid crops on farms, there are also attacks on people trying to protect their crops. There are some tourists, but largely the attacks are happening to local residents.

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– Rebecca Lewison

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My world went dark and strangely quiet. from the waist down, I could feel the water. I could feel I was wet in the river. From my waist up, it was different. I was warm, and it wasn’t wet like the river, but it wasn’t dry either. And it was just incredible pressure on my lower back. I tried to move around; I couldn’t.

Hippos are important ecosystem engineers of the ecology of freshwater areas they inhabit. This is through nutrient recycling from dung (they consume large amounts of vegetation), hippos attack not to eat people, but to get them the hell away from them.

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In Kenya, for example, contact the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association.

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Once attacked, there is nothing you can do, fight for dear life and watch for any chance to escape.

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Hippos usually come out of water late in the evening and at night to forage, so avoid trekking along the river at that time.

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These are signs you should have left already!

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The history of it’s not lost on us, we can say that. We understand what’s happening, we’re not putting any added pressure on anything. We’re not staring at our schedule, staring at our record right now. We’re just a bunch of guys in our locker room going out there playing the game we love and letting things take care of itself.

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– Brandon Lowe

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You’ve got the tax credits as the carrot.

– Thomas Boylan

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It’s a pretty big deal, this is really going to set the tone for the rest of the decade and into the 2030s in terms of what this administration is looking for the auto industry to do when it comes to decarbonizing and ultimately electrifying.

– Thomas Boylan

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The priority is to just get a social media channel that is so huge that it’s undeniable, it cannot be ignored, i like to think it’s eventually going to become easy enough, almost like a robotic pitch, where you can just show the numbers and show the results and then I have a lot of money donated to cancer research.

– Iain Ward

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1 year ago

I could get very upset about the bad poker hand that I’ve been dealt, but at the same time, it’s almost arrogant of me to not look at the other amazing poker hand that I’ve been dealt simultaneously.

– Iain Ward

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I hope this doesn’t sound arrogant, but I’m experienced enough to know that the hardest thing that we are going to do has nothing to do with your physical fitness ability, it’s going to be your tolerance of having a really sore bum, which you can’t train for.

– Iain Ward

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Xylazine is one of the contaminants in fentanyl, but there could be others, so, I think with the declaration of an emerging threat, we’re sending a clear message to producers and traffickers of illicit xylazine and illicit fentanyl that we’re going to respond quicker, we’re going to match the challenge of evolution of these drugs supply, and that we’re going to protect lives first and foremost.

We need to recognize, first of all, that there is a shift that is occurring from organic compounds and substances like heroin and cocaine to more synthetics, both the types of drugs have changed – from predominantly organic to predominantly synthetics – but the way drugs are bought and sold have also changed.

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This drug, which is an animal sedative, is being mixed with fentanyl and is being found in almost all 50 states now, it’s become an important part for us to make sure that we’re declaring it an emerging threat.

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Both the types of drugs have changed – from predominantly organic to predominantly synthetics – but the way drugs are bought and sold have also changed.

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